I think it's the other way round, there are too many clubs, not enough people and its all due to pressings being played all night. These are the ones that tend to survive and they are to blame for killing this scene along with killing off proper clubs due to the simple fact that the dodgy clubs all play f... pressings and if it wasn't for these twa.s then there would be less crap venues playing cheap imitation records that are mainly old big casino tunes pressed to death for a load of sheep to keep listening to every week. But if there were no pressings these clubs wouldn't be around at all and the infulence of the old pressings of classics would be less imposing. There would be far less clubs around granted but this would only be a good thing as there would be lots lots more people to go around to clubs playing proper original music and the influence at these clubs by dj's would at last influence the sheep and there would be a healthy future just like it used to be before lots of little clubs sprung up all playing old casino clasics from bloody pressings. Don't get me wrong I am not against any little club as I try and run one. But I am firmly against pressings for the reasons given. I embrace new clubs and new dj's but not joey clubs playing joey records, thats whats killing this scene.
ps:- I also like whatever I like, oldies, new, underplayed whatever. I believe in choice but it's the people who make the f..n pressings who are to blame for the shambles we are left with now. If they didn't make um no bugger could play um .
At the end of the day we may well still have a big divide in music but whatever your choice the clubs that you did decide to go to would be full whatever they play.